Selected Internet Resources - Biography

Biographies of Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics.

Biographies
PolySearch Engine
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/egyeb/poly-bio.htm
Search for biographical information, sketches,
and full biographies of famous and infamous historical figures,
politicians, scientists, authors, artists & athletes from a
variety of freely available websites.

Catalog
of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/catalog.html
More than 600 biographies of members of the scientific
community during the 16th and 17th centuries with 20 searchable
fields including education, means of support, nationality, patronage,
religion, and scientific disciplines.

Distinguished
Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
Links to biographies of women in all fields of
endeavor. Alphabetical name index or click on Search by Fields of
Activity to see biographies grouped by topics such as Agriculture
and Horticulture, Biology, Engineering, etc. Also includes recommended
books with links to Amazon.com online bookseller.

Eric
Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
A database of very brief biographies for
over 1,000 figures in science. Search by keyword or by categories:
branch of science, gender/minority status, historica periods, and
prize winners.

The
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
Photographs, short biographies, and bibliographical
sources. Alphabetical name index, index by profession, index of
people, a list of women scientists, and a table of first Ph.D.s
awarded to African Americans by subject.

Indexes
of Biographies of Mathematicians
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/BiogIndex.html
Short biographies, some with photographs, and references. Several
indexes, including an alphabetical index, chronological index, famous curves
index, and a list of female mathematicians.

Lives, the Biography
Resource
http://amillionlives.com/
Claims to be the largest guide to biography sites on the Web.
Special sections on African Americans, Canadians and Women. Several collections
of biographies. Click on Professions, then scroll down to Professions: Science,
Mathematics, Exploration, Invention to see the links to biographies of scientists.

Mathematicians
of the African Diaspora
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/
Names, profiles, and photographs of more than 200 mathematicians
of African descent. Includes indexes of research mathematicians and women in
the mathematical sciences.

The National Inventors
Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org
Biographies of members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Alphabetical name index, date of induction index, and inventions index.

Nobel
Prize Internet Archive
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
Biographies of Nobel Prize winners, with links to other sites
containing information. Quick search available or can be browsed by Nobel Prize
category.

SUMMA Archival Record
http://www.maa.org/summa/archive/ar_index.htm
SUMMA houses a current archival record of pictures and biographies of Ph.D.s in mathematics and mathematics education who are members of minority groups and who were American citizens at the time they received their degrees.